How to find downloaded file without hardcoding download location?

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I click on a download button using Python with Selenium, and an Excel file gets downloaded. Is there any way to have it open with Pandas without hardcoding the default download folder? If I know the download location, I do this to open the latest downloaded file, and it works well:

downloadsFolder = '../../Downloads/' + "*.xlsx"
list_of_files = glob.glob(downloadsFolder)
latest_file = max(list_of_files, key=os.path.getctime)
file_content = pandas.read_excel(latest_file)

I want my script to be run on multiple machines though so hardcoding the path for the default download folder is not going to work. Is there a way to figure out the download location with Python? Or is there maybe a way to just open on a fly whatever gets downloaded?

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This should work on all platforms:

from os.path import expanduser
import os
home = expanduser("~")
downloads_path = home + os.sep + "Downloads"

downloads_path will give you an absolute path to default downloads folder for any user on any OS.

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